Signs of the times.

Via Matt Yglesias…

Meanwhile in Olympia…

…my own personal first-term Representative is making her mark. Via Of Paramount Importance...

OLYMPIA—State Rep. Cindy Ryu reached a major milestone today in her effort to save Washington’s Mortgage Lending Fraud Prosecution Account.

The House of Representatives voted 97-0 for Ryu’s proposal to cancel the scheduled July termination of the fraud-fighting account and extend its life to the end of June, 2016.

While I'm generally in favor of sunset provisions that keep legislation from outliving it's usefulness, sometimes a good idea remains good, and sometimes it might get even better, with the passage of time. Spotting and saving the good ones is something we count on our legislators for, and Cindy's proving we can count on her.

Somos el barco…

somos el mar, yo navego en ti, tu navegas en mi. Or, as Oliver says...

Your neighbor’s mortgage is your problem. America is not a Katrina-style you’re on your own nation. That abandoned house down the street and the millions like it will become an incubator for crime and ruin, and then your house will lose value and our society will be the worse off for it.

The idea,attributed to Benjamin Franklin, that if we don't all hang together we'll all hang separately is as old as the republic and as true as ever.